Editor's Pick: Gadget Ogling: Falling Apples and Magical Pancakes

Gadget Ogling: Falling Apples and Magical Pancakes

Kris Holt 03/14/15 5:00 AM PT
	Apple dropped a few new facts about its Watch at this week's presentation. The hardware is interesting in that Apple is limiting what people can do with their 8 GB of storage. No more than a quarter of that can be filed with music, and photos can take up just 75 MB, which seems somewhat rudimentary. I'm glad to see the battery apparently lasts enough to see out a full day. [More...]

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